The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1887-05-12
MlDDLEBURGH, SNYDER co, PENN'A MAY r. 1887.

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bly, with an idea Of burning tho rail.
road bridges in their rear. II | d.
not capture them in the meantime
SEQ that they do not psss Chattanoo
ga"
Captain Fuller's desire now wa.
to reach Dalton and sond the tele-
gram before the fugi,ives could cu'
the wire beyond Dalton.
Two milos beyond Calhoun, The
fngilives wore sighted for tho FRS
time, and from their movements
they wore evidently greatly excited
they detached one cf their freight
cars and left it at the point where
they wcro seen. They had putinlly
taken up q rail, but that or the car
did not detain Captain Fuller. lie
coupled the car to the engine With
out stopping, got on top OF the
freight. car aud gave signals to the
engineer by which he could run (;
rs tho car in front obsonred his Wow.
Two aud half miles farther Cap.
tain Fuller came across another
freight car which the fugitivos had
detached.
As before he coupled this on
without stopping, and pushed. on to
Resaca, whero he switched the two
cars of on tho siding. Again he
started out with an engine only.
Two miles north OF Resaca, while
standing on the rear end Of the ten
der, he discovered in a short curve
a y rail diagonally across tho track
and being too close to stop, tho en-,
gine went over it at the rate of 55
miles per hour.
After this, until they reached Dali
ton, only occasioually were obstruc-
tions met with.
At Dalton he dropped the telegraph
operator with instructions to put
through the telegram mt all hazards,
and continued the chase. Two miles
beyond he overlook the fugitivcs
tearing up the track, in plain view of
Col. Jesse A. Glenn's regiment en-
camped near by. Thoycut the tele-
graph wire just after the Dalton OPP
orator had flashed C'Jptoin Fuller's
telegram over it,preventing hrm fro m
receiving the usual acknowledgement
OF 30. r." from Chattanooga.
The fugitives resumed their flight,
and never perhaps did two engines
with ilye feet ten inch whoels make
fastor time than the pursued and the
pursuer. The fugitivos had the nd
vantage in the fact that the "Gener>
aln "Rogcrs' was headed for Chat
tauooga, while the Texas" n "Dau
fort u Cook engine was running
backwards, Tho fifteen miles to
and three miles beyond was
made in loss time thnn Captain Fuller
ever made the same distance I'm twon
ty years experience as n conductor
Half way between Ringgold and
he got within one quarter
Of Il mile Of the tuSitiycs, who, being
20 closely pressed, set their only ro>
freight car on fire with n
view OF cutting ii loose on the next
bridge. The smoke Of the General
plainly showed that she was tagging.
rho fugitives abandoned the engine
and took to the woods in a westerly
direction. Captain Fuller now ran
lp and coupled on to the burning car.
The fire was extinguished and the car
.ont back to Ringgold in charge of
The engineer. AS Captain Fuller
passed Ringgold he noticed some fifty
Or seventy five militia mastering and
sent word back to the commanding
officer to put all his militia Oh horse
back and sent them into the woods
n pursuit OF the lugitives as quickly
rs possible. This was about half
past O'Clock, u. NJ.
Although jaded and fatigued, Cap
ain Fuller, Anthony Murphy, Flem>
ming Cox, and Alonzo Martin took to
The woods in pursuit.
When the fugitives abandoned the
,ngine, Andrews, their leader, said
every ono take care OF himself and
hey left in squads Of three or four.
Four of them were run down in the
ork of the river at Graysville and one
vas forcibly persuaded to tell who
hey were.
The militia mounted on fresh horses
secured the woods that afternoon,
and by the next day the last of the
'ugitives were captured.
Later there was trial by military
court and eight of the number were
Six were exchanged, but
before the sentence Of the court was
carried out eight escaped.
Thus ended one Of the most daring
exploits on record.